“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Inferno, canto v, line 121.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
— Dante Alighieri, book Inferno
Canto V, lines 121–123 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
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